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"Easy to use components to create the job.""Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud.""The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report.""We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support.""Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it.""The initial setup is pretty straightforward.""I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."

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"Feature-wise, I feel that the solution's stability is good."

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Cons
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process.""We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost.""Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention.""Logging capability is needed.""Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive.""The repository should be improved.""Version control would be a good addition.""Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."

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"It is not a very scalable product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Free and commercial versions are available."
  • "Pentaho is expensive ."
  • "We were lucky enough to find a Pentaho OEM partner who offered a data warehouse model and the ETL software for about 60K SGD per year."
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  • "I do not know of the licensing cost, but there are additional costs like 5,00,000 for recruitment modules."
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    Any company (be it technology, manfucaturing, human resource, ecommerce, SME etc) always has the need for Business Intelligence to some or the other extent. If cost is one of the consideration factor, then the 2 BI tools which are at the forefront are Pentaho and Jaspersoft. But, often the same companies are caught up in an imbrogilo as to which tool to use, what are the technology/and end business user wise differences/ do i actually need to purchase commercial edition, is there any work around etc. Differences :- In the below mentioned points, I have tried to cover functionality wise the differences a. Reports :- Jaspersoft is known for its picture pixel perfect reporting. Jasper uses ireport for designing the reports. Hence, for having reports, Jaspersoft is the most ideal candidate. Pentaho uses Pentaho Report Designer. b. Dashboards :- Pentaho provides much more capabililties, interactivity in terms of dashboards. Dashboards designed in Pentaho are far more superior in functionality, aesthetically as compared to Jaspersoft. Pentaho CE uses CDE/CDF, Pentaho EE uses PDD . Dashboard functionality is present only in the Enterprise edition of Jaspersoft. c. Pentaho is having an intermediate layer known as Xactions & hence providing much more flexibility in terms of plugin designing, integration with applications, having out of box experience etc. Xactions supports scripting and scheduling of scripts execution. Jaspersoft dosent provide that much of flexibility in terms of… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows:  1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle  - look for SAP… more »
    Top Answer:The organization has both options based on their needs and budget constraints. The Enterprise Edition is expensive with references to an added number of features.
    Top Answer:The product to me is not as user-friendly as other players in the market. It also still needs improvement in the reporting module. You will need to search for deployment examples or need to have a… more »
    Top Answer:Feature-wise, I feel that the solution's stability is good.
    Top Answer:I do not know of the licensing cost, but there are additional costs like 5,00,000 for recruitment modules.
    Top Answer:I think you need to get some data visualizations or some sort of schema that you can print to see the relationships or the different business objects and IDs. I tried to be able to use the useful data… more »
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    Also Known As
    Pentaho, Kettle, Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics
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    Overview

    Pentaho is an open source business intelligence company that provides a wide range of tools to help their customers better manage their businesses. These tools include data integration software, mining tools, dashboard applications, online analytical processing options, and more.

    Pentaho has two product categories: There is the standard enterprise version. This is the product that comes directly from Pentaho itself with all of the benefits, features, and programs that come along with a paid application such us analysis services, dashboard design, and interactive reporting.

    The alternative is an open source version, which the public is permitted to add to and tweak the product. This solution has its advantages, aside from the fact that it is free, in that there are many more people working on the project to improve its quality and breadth of functionality.

    With Workday Prism Analytics, you can bring data in at scale from any source and prepare, analyze, and securely share it with your organization. The result? You gain all the insights you need to drive better business outcomes.

    Sample Customers
    Cargo 2000 Lufthansa, Marketo, ModCloth, Cardiac Science, Telefonica, ExactTarget, Active Broadband Networks, and Brussels Airport.
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    University13%
    Marketing Services Firm6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Government12%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Educational Organization9%
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    Financial Services Firm11%
    Healthcare Company9%
    Insurance Company8%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise33%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 20th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews while Workday Prism Analytics is ranked 26th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 1 review. Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0, while Workday Prism Analytics is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workday Prism Analytics writes "A stable data analytics solution that needs some improvement with scalability and data visualization". Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, Tableau and SAP Crystal Reports, whereas Workday Prism Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle Essbase and Databricks.

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